New songs, tour thoughts & other stuff

Hey folks,

So we are finally almost done with touring, just 2 festival shows left and that's it for 2025 for live music. I was not quite prepared for just how much time & mental energy this stuff would take up for me and as a result my MOS new music schedule suffered a lot. I'm eager to get back to making songs for ye!

Touring was a wild, indescribable experience. There were a lot of high points, like seeing the MOS audience singing the songs every night with us, hanging with the crew & band and interacting with fans. There were also some challenges and low points, like illness, constant stress, lack of sleep and me dealing with the worst panic attacks & crushing anxiety I've had in over a decade before & during almost every show. It was really only in the last few shows that I was finally managing to get the anxiety under control but I am excited now for the future, knowing that we can do this and do it well!

For those wondering if we have streams/videos of all the live shows, we do not. That's something we may look into later when we are more experienced and are a tighter, more well oiled live band. Right now I don't feel we are ready for that.

It was more than enough of a life consuming task just to get the live shows done themselves. We kinda got thrown right in at the deep end without knowing how to swim and had MANY obstacles, challenges & difficulties to learn & overcome. My mental & physical health both suffered while touring. Adding even more complications to our first ever tour would just be too much to manage.

Here is a list of some of the new music coming your way, hopefully very soon:

1. Kingdom Come: Deliverance song - A big, uplifting folk metal song. I have finished all my parts and the song is mostly mixed, just waiting on some guest vocals to get sent to me. Fingers crossed for a June/July release.

2. A brand new more personal song - The angriest, most pissed off MOS song ever made. Definitely something a bit different for me, I had some things I needed to vent about.
This one is fully tracked & recorded on my side, just waiting on some parts from other people. Hoping to release before August.

3. Oblivion song, featuring Malukah (Still in the writing process, I'm super stoked to work with Malu again!)

4. London Town remake - this one is mixed and almost ready to go, just gotta figure out what we are doing with the video.

5. My Irish/Celtic folk metal album - I have 7 songs written and 4 of them recorded. I am hoping to have the first single out this summer.

I know some of you will be asking 'but what about Doom, Claire Obscura, Death Stranding 2, TLOU S2 etc etc' and the only answer I can give you is that I too also wish there were more time to do everything I want to do but there just aren't enough hours in the days!

Big luv
Gav